Self Esteem

This is worth recording…

My daughter has just ‘escaped’ (my verb, not hers) from the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney and is now ensconced in a forward-looking and quite culturally diverse Queensland state high school.

I asked her today if she liked her new friends.

Very much.

But (followed the whine) today she wore new Nikes, and nobody even noticed. Back at Clovelly they would have been the subject of half a day’s conversation.

I chuckled and said something like “you can’t buy self esteem my love.”